Hi all, something I didn't mention in the video is that I only allowed one album per band. This is why albums like Isn't Anything or Just For a Day weren't featured. My reasoning for this was so I could highlight some groups that don't get discussed as often as MBV, Ride, and Slowdive. If I allowed multiple albums per band, I would have included all three MBV albums, two Ride albums, and two Slowdive albums!
Here's a few more Irish Bands you may like to check out -- Rollerskate Skinny (the first couple E.P.'s & Debut Album had Jim Shields, Kevin Shields (MBV) brother, on Guitar. Check out "Cushy Daughter", "Violence To Violence", "Speed To My Side") The Whipping Boy (they should've been bigger. Check out "Favourite Sister", "Buffalo", "When We Where Young", "Twinkle") Into Paradise (check out "Burns My Skin" for starters.) .
I have to agree with that : )) So nice when someone agrees after thousands of hours of listening to show gaze. I personally love 60's psychedelic classical and Shoegaze ... I adore all 3 genres..and it is good when there is some general consensus about good taste and genius and brilliance that overlaps...... : )) Nice list by the way.. Very much enjoying the albums I did NOT know of......... also reason for tuning in! : )) Thank you.
as a brazilian, seeing sonhos tomam conta growing in the underground shoegaze scene outside of brazil is pretty amazing as most local underrated artists usually have a hard time connecting their music to other countries in general (and sometimes even brazil itself lol)
@@Janik-pwoejrur well while they do have some songs that take influence from shoegaze and dream pop Lupe de Lupe never sticks to a genre as they've proven with their albums, that's the main reason i would assume
Love the list. However, I'm disappointed not to see The Drop Nineteen's Delaware on that classic list. Not a band you hear much from but significant in the US Shoegaze scene in the 90s.
Thank you armblessed. You make a valid point, they were probably the most significant US shoegaze group of the 90s. They would probably take my number 11 spot. However, they may go up in my ranking.
@@StainedGlassStories it’s all good, man. They’re so obscure these days, it induces confusion in hipsters. Hope you give the album a good listen. Slip in their cover of Manilow’s Mandy from their EP for a good laugh.
@@zzz8630 Compared to what was out there at the time, Delaware was very different. However, I agree with you about Kick The Tragedy. 30 years later, it’s the most enduring track off that LP.
I’ll take Nowhere (and Going Blank Again, for that matter) over Loveless every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Also, Catherine Wheel’s Ferment needs to make the list. That’s just me. Great job.
All of them truly shoegaze classics! I'll give you my favourite 10 (Shoegaze mixed with other genres): 1- Ride - Going Blank Again 2- MBV - Loveless 3- Slowdive - Souvlaki 4- Asobi Seksu - Citrus 5- Lush - Spooky 6- Chapterhouse - Whirlpool 7- DIIV - Is The Is Are? 8- Soda Stereo - Dynamo 9- Curve - Doppelganger 10- The Horrors - Primary Colors
Quick Top 10 (also excluded duplicate albums and EP’s or compilations as that would definitely change the list) that if I spent more time researching would likely change but here we go as a start with an * to change later (favourite track): 1. RIDE - Nowhere (Vapour Trail) 2. SLOWDIVE - Just For A Day (Catch The Breeze) 3. CHAPTERHOUSE - Whirlpool (Pearl) 4. MBV - Loveless (I Only Said) 5. SWALLOW - Blow (Sugar Your Mind) 6. BLIND MR. JONES - Stereo Musicale (Small Caravan) 7. CURVE - Doppelgänger (Horror Head) 8. LUSH - Spooky (Nothing Natural) 9. BLEACH - Killing Time (Trip and Slide) 10. SIANSPHERIC - Somnium (I Like the Ride)
@@StainedGlassStories Other good records are Mahogany's "The Dream of a Modern Day", Malory's "Not Here Not Now", Guitaro's "Futura Black", Jessica Bailiff's "Hour of the Trace", Medicine's "Shot Forth Self Living", Microphones' "Don't Wake Me Up" and Skywave's "Echodrone".
I’m really surprised that Swervedriver’s not gotten any love in these videos…i they are a lot more than just Shoegaze, but at the time Raise was almost as significant as Nowhere for what was happening.
Huge fan of Starflyer 59. Gold, Silver, Leave Here a Stranger and Old all are quite solid, hazy and dreamy offerings. The first two are crunchier while the latter two are more atmospheric and easier on the ears.
Souvlaki is definitely my #1, followed by Just For A Day & Nowhere. One newer shoegaze album (with Black Metal vocals) I adore is Esse Est Percipi by Autumn Nostalgie from Slovakia. I have the 27th of 66 limited addition cassettes of this☺️. There are some beautiful songs on here, like Fallen Leaves, and some intense parts as well. They released a second album this year (or maybe it was 2021) called Ataraxia that is also very good. I have a limited cd copy of this.
I'd personally go with V:D:C in number 1, when I heard the glitchy Tekka for the first time followed by the beautiful DSCO, I knew it was going to be something special. Great list and vid!
Thank you Praemisit! You make a great point, I think V:D:C is such an achievement for shoegaze and electronic music. It took the rest of the world nearly 20 years to catch up!
You should listen to Unexpectedly by Megumi Acorda if you haven't already. I recently found this record and it has absolutely captivated me. It also makes me appreciate it more knowing the artist is Filipino, speaking from someone who is a Filipino himself.
I read that split is not usually viewed very highly by critics but so far it’s probably my favorite album by lush. I agree it’s lyrically very deep and teeters on having a more dreamy sound like HOLV by CT or Blind by Sundays.
I was shocked to see the view count lol, kinda expected it to have a whole lot more views. keep up this quality and you're set! love this style of video, keep it up!
Thank you, Broken tv 2! It's comments like yours that keep me motivated! The way I see it, if it's not a video I would watch, then it's not a video I would upload.
Def check out Lilys "In The Presence of Nothing", Starflyer 59 "Silver", and The Veldt "Afrodisiac" if you haven't yet. Prob my favorite of the 90s American shoegaze albums
Thanks for the new recommendations. I haven’t really listened to any of those 2nd wave bands. I can’t argue with the classic picks. A few I would have in my top 10 or 20: Chapterhouse - Whirlpool Swervedriver - Mazcal Head Darling Buds - Erotica Autumns - the Angel Pool Loop - The World In Your Eyes Spacemen 3 - Recurring Southpacific - Constance Engineers - Engineers
Seefeel Quique, and Boo Radleys Everything’s Alright Forever are probably the most overlooked shoegaze albums that are actually top 10. Blonde Redhead 23 honorable mention. Swirlies They Spent Their Youthful Days is their Loveless imo
Hey man - thoughtful, relevant and well spoken. Nice job. 50s guy who's not into dad rock and always looking for something new - there's bands there I hadn't heard of. Thank you.
The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads by Lift to Experience is an amazingly underrated shoegaze album, Robin Guthrie the guitarist for the Cocteau Twins did the mixing on the album, super unique mix of shoegaze, post-rock and country influences, I consider it one of the shoegaze greats
The song "House Full of Time" by Guitar doesn't fit with the rest of that album (Sunkissed), as I remember, but is one of the shoegaziest tracks ever, and is worth checking out.
Great list, I'm also quite happy with the inclusion of Lovesliescrushing. Some of my other favorite albums include Flying Saucer Attack's self-titled album, Love Songs For the Chemical Generation by Daniel Land & the Modern Painters, Ferment by Catherine Wheel, Taste by The Telescopes, and Sea When Absent by A Sunny Day in Glasgow.
I really like Lush's Split, but I would have chosen "Spooky". And I think I know why Chapterhouse is not on this list: because it's not essentially a Shoegaze album, but a heavily influenced by Shoegaze album, such as Blur's Leisure and Verve's A Storm in Heaven.
My top 5 not mentioned in this video by bands not mentioned in this video: 1. Skywave - Synthstatic 2. Diiv - Oshin 3. The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa -- Suserrate 4. Alcest - Shelter 5. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us (I consider it shoegaze)
Oshin is awesome, but it feels more of a dream pop album than shoegaze to me. I feel like they didn't really go full shoegaze until Deceiver, though a lot of tracks before that (Bent, Wait) def have heavy shoegaze influence
First I want to thank you for your intense and profound work. 😊I wouldn't leave a comment regarding the content or decisions in a list, which are always highly individual. But the layout and compilation regarding the criteria of this list is from a methodical point of view nearly flawless. Nice work.👍
Back in college in the 90s, I was really into The Cranes and Catherine Wheel, as well as Slowdive, Lush, and many other bands of this genre. Strangely enough, I don't think I ever even heard the term shoegaze until the 2000s.
I was going to leave a comment saying my favourite Shoegaze album is True Color, True Lie by this Japanese band called Hartfield, when I realised YOU were the one that showed me them in your Japanese Shoegaze video... was a very trippy moment haha, but just wanted to say thank you so much for introducing them, I think I saw your video back in December but I'm still listening to them all the time! I'm Japanese but had never heard of them, such a shame they disbanded after the one album.
My Bloody Valentine aren't a "shoegaze" band. The term was used to describe the bands that spawned in the wake of "You Made Me Realise" and "Isn't Anything". So it's not really fair to compare shoegaze bands to the Valentines, I think these bands would be the first to admit their records are just not on a par, MBV remain peerless. As a teenager in the UK in those days, these are the ones that hit hardest: 1. Chapterhouse - Whirlpool 2. Swervedriver - Raise 3. Pale Saints - Comforts of Madness 4. Ride - Nowhere 5. The Telescopes - Splashdown (compilation) 6. Lush - Scar 7. Slowdive - Blue Day (compilation) 8. Seefeel - Polyfusia (compilation) 9. The Boo Radleys - Learning to Walk (compilation) 10. Drop Nineteens - Delaware Lots of bands released their best material on e.p.'s, so it makes sense to list some compilations, as you'll find a lot of gems collected on them.
Interesting selections and I do generally agree. Here's my list, partially complete. Ratings are weighted towards the album's best tracks (because you would skip tracks you didn't love more often) 1. Loveless (My Bloody Valentine, 1991) - 4.93/5.00 (#1/70) 2. Bowery Electric (Bowery Electric, 1995) - 4.89/5.00 (#3/70) [Tremolo EP (My Bloody Valentine, 1990) - 4.82/5.00 (#5/70)] [You Made Me Realise (My Bloody Valentine, 1988) - 4.70/5.00 (#7/70)] 3. Beat (Bowery Electric, 1996) - 4.54/5.00 (#12/70) 4. In the Presence of Nothing (Lilys, 1992) - 4.43/5.00 (#18/70) 5. Nowhere (Ride, 1990) - 4.41/5.00 (#19/70) 6. Suave pendiente (Ninos del Cerro, 2022) - 4.35/5.00 (#21/70) [Breathe (Eternal, 1990) - 4.33/5.00 (#23/70)] 7. Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time - 4.31/5.00 (#24/70) [Moodswinger [DRMS version] (Stopping Clocks, 2022) - 4.31/5.00 (#24/70)] 8. m b v (My Bloody Valentine, 2013) - 4.28/5.00 (#28/70) I expect Slowdive's Souvlaki to end up top 5, Ride's Going Blank Again in the top 10, and Drop Nineteens's Mayfield to possibly be on here, too. Isn't Anything isn't on this list due to me disliking the sound of it - 3.46/5.00 (This is Your Bloody Valentine got a 3.61 from me. Yeah, their maddeningly inconsistent gothic rock LP.)
Sweet Trip's album is positively brilliant, and he literally chose 2 of the album's weakest tracks for this video. It's basically if Kev quit MBV to join Cex. It'll make you think that Roberto Burgos recorded the base tracks, then sat in front of a computer running Steinberg Wavelab for 5 years cutting and pasting and cutting and pasting til his body was found melted into his chair covered in spiderwebs.
Great video! I was about your age when shoegaze was blowing up 1989-1992. I'd have to slot The Boo Radleys' "Everything's Alright Forever" in my top ten. They kinda turned into an embarrassing Britpop act later on, but that album as well as the Creation and Rough Trade EPs leading up to it are sublime.
I am so glad to find two of my favourite albums, Split and Souvlaki, in your shortlist. I am a fan of musicians who try to reinvent themselves and their music, those who experiment and embrace different styles. I still listen to a few other albums from the early 1990s, for example "Cuckoo" by Curve.
The collab album Downfall of the Neon Youth by Parannoul, Asian Glow, and Sonhos Tonham Conta is one of my favorite Shoegaze albums of all time, as well as the one that got me into the genre.
Great ranking. Hard to argue with: Lush, Slowdive, or MBV. You can’t miss Curve (Doppelgänger). You would have a nice surprise with Charlie Alberti/Deborah del Corral (Plum) from Argentina. Finally, I would add one of my favs Jesus & Mary Chain (Honey’s Dead).
Lush album Gala was my only shoegazing obsession. Listened over and over again. Besides the song ‘Hey Helen’ I never understood another lyric from them, which is totally fine with me. I would call the music beautiful noise where the vocals were just an instrument layered with the melody on top. Also, the energy was fairly even across the song allowing for a meditative state. I pivoted from this to groups like Throwing Muses, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Live, Janes Addiction which expressed more range of expression and emotions.
Great list! I personally would have included Rumskib (self-titled) in the list cos i think its a very interesting piece of electronic-orientated shoegaze (if you haven't heard it, give is a listen).
Great list and video. You may have become my favourite non-review focused music channel. I would love a video about your top ambient and alt-rock albums.
Thank you so much Llibran! I'm glad that you said my channel is, "non-review focused." I've tried to avoid making this a review channel, as my goal is to highlight bands rather than score them. I would be happy to make both of those videos at some point!
I used to listen to a lot of Rose Chronicles, back in the day. These days I tend to listen to atmospheric black metal. I appreciate this list, as it's getting me reacquainted with bands I might not have heard about!
I love the Rose Chronicles!!!!! Good mention!!!! If you haven't already you should check out the band: An April March, also from Canada, and existed in the 90's, especially their album "Impatiens", very similar sound to The Rose Chronicles, and definitely inspired by Cocteau Twins!!!! Cheers!!!! Enjoy!!!!!
This is quite the interesting list. There are some selections I expected and some that I did not. As you know everyone's list would be different. So I'm going to delve into the music you suggested via your top 10 that I have never experienced. I do want to give you a big ups for putting Loveliescrushing on your list. I didn't think anybody in the world listened to them besides myself.
I don’t really have any opinions on this list as I’ve only just started to get into Shoegaze. Only commenting to thank you for uploading this, now I know a good place to start. (I hope that Loveless lives up to all the praise I’ve seen it get)
Once listened to Only Shallow when it came out on MTV whilst I was studying for nursing boards.No local Pgh radio stations played any of this shoegaze music even on our "alternative " channel. A few months ago I heard Only Shallow after 32 yrs on Sirius XM Lol 😆 🤣 😂 Totally blew me outta the water and I am rediscovering it happily again!!! This music is a time travel into future and will never grow old with it's fresh and out of the box sound tapestries.
Great list. Only Loveless or Souvlaki could reasonably be at #1. Have you ever listened to Tired of Tomorrow by the band Nothing? That's one of my newer favorites
Great video! I've found some new stuff as well :) keep it going! ps1: mbv by my bloody valentine should have been in the list!! but since only 1 album per band is permitted, I can take that loveless took its spot ps2: there's a great argentinian band called Plenamente, I recommend their songs "Consuelo" from their album "Elemental", as well as "Rosario" and "Felicia" from their album "Plenamente"
Thank you very much s a v a g e :)! I agree with you that MBV is an excellent album. I would have to think about it more, but the song, "Only Tomorrow," may just be my favorite shoegaze song of all time. It was so difficult to pick only one My Bloody Valentine record! I will give Plenamente a listen! Thanks for the suggestion!
As much as I love blonder tongue audio baton I believe swirlies second effort is the superior of the two, they definitely went their own way on that album, so original which is a bit of a rare thing in this genre, at least these days. Nonetheless pleased to see swirlies get the recognition they deserve.
Really interesting list -- not just the usual consensus picks, and the ones you picked that I wasn't familiar with sound awesome. Congrats on having good taste and thinking for yourself. I feel like that's increasingly rare
Lovely list! There is a Dutch band called HABITANTS, whose founder was greatly influenced by Slowdive. Their only album to date, "One Self", has one of the most polished and sophisticated takes on shoegaze I've ever heard. It's a no skip record, worth checking out.
@@StainedGlassStories I'd highly recommend! I'm a big fan of all of their stuff, but definitely their earlier work is much more shoegaze influenced. Dead Cities probably adopts those qualities the most, while adding very intriguing electronic elements as well. Give it a listen!
@@joshuabarlow167 I'm looking forward to hearing them! I'll listen to Dead Cities first since it sounds most intreguing. Who knows, maybe they'll become one of my favorite groups!
I've been following 'shoegaze' and variants since I first saw Ride on "120 Minutes" over 30 years ago (I had liked bands with a big guitar sound since the 70's). There are lots of bands currently doing versions of it, some of them very good, others not so much. Fwiw, my current personal favorite is Blankenberge, who are from St. Petersburg, Russia. Their 2019 album "More" and the recently released "Everything" are both outstanding. For my money, melodic sense and/or attractive chord progressions are what make the style. There are loads of bands that manage to get the "soundworld" right, but have little or nothing to offer in terms of attractive songwriting/song-construction. I recently listened to a band that a record store guy recommended, for instance, and afterwards I immediately thought, "This is basically Slowdive, but without the melodies." Nice mood, but nothing that really grabbed me and made me want to listen again.
V.D.C. is one of my favorite albums. I discovered a lot of new great music from this video that I'm interested in listening to (specifically Lush - Split, Lovesliescrushing - Xuvetyn, My Bloody Valentine - Loveless)
So glad you enjoy V.D.C. too!! It makes me happy to read that some of the albums I talked about interested you. That's my number one goal as a youtuber !
Thanks for sharing loveliescrushing - never heard of them. I wonder if you've spent time with "everything's alright forever" by boo radleys. Their first and best (i couldn't get into later releases). The textures on that album are top ten - and i've never heard any band with this tone
Split and Just for a Day are two albums of the original era that don’t get the recognition they deserve (I’ll also throw in Going Blank Again for good measure). Someone previously mentioned Starflyer 59, which is a criminally underrated band. It was Silver and the She’s the Queen EP that got me into Shoegaze in the first place, and you can hear Jason Martin’s influence all over the genre. He still releases new albums under the SF59 moniker, collab’s with other artists (Lo Tom, The New Division), and does production work for others (The Drums, Cigarettes after Sex). If I could be indulged one more interjection, my favorite of the second wave (late 90’s/early 00’s) is Bethany Curve. The opening track of You Brought Us Here is equal to MBV Loveless’s opener for setting the tone of the album and who they are as a band.
I'm glad you put some "lesser" known bands relative to the shoegaze scene, will absolutely be checking out swirlies and pale saints Recently I found a very very very small Japanese shoegaze band by the name "Hartfield", around ~1,300 monthly listeners on spotify. Their debut and only published album "True Color, True Lie" is a really incredible landmark of second wave japanese shoegaze and I really love it and hope more people check it out.
Thanks Link! Love your pfp btw. Hope you enjoy Swirlies and Pale Saints! I'm going to give Hartfield a listen. I've been diving deeper into the Japanese shoegaze scene and I'm hoping to eventually make a video about the topic! Looking forward to listening to them.
@@StainedGlassStories new astrobrite, new lovesliescrushing, facilitation of orchestral versions of lovesliescrushing songs with a composer, and other stuff
@@scottcortez1313 I'm looking forward to hearing the new Astrobrite and lovesliescrushing material. It's exciting to read that some lovesliescrushing songs will be explored orchestrally. I would love to get the sheet music copies of your songs for the alto saxophone.
Whirlpool by Chapterhouse, Everythings Alright Forever by Boo Radleys, Delaware by Drop Nineteens, Cuckoo by Curve and Shot Forth Self Living by Medicine should be on this list. You know, actual shoegaze.
Great list but was kinda surprised to see Ride all the way on 6 rather than 3 or 4 because they're considered to be up there in the shoegaze holy trinity along with MBV and Slowdive. But awesome picks anyways! I would love to also add Against Perfection by Adorable, Raise by Swervedriver, In The Presence of Nothing by Lilys, Delaware by Drop Ninteens and an earlier version of Shoegaze, Just Like Honey by TJAMC. There are loads more I can honestly mention!
Thank you so much Drae! I think if I were to rank the albums by their influence, Nowhere would definitely be within the top 3. Deathconciousness and V:D:C may not be as influential as Nowhere, but I enjoyed the records more for the unique places they take the shoegaze genre. It was a hard decision, though! I love Delaware by Drop Nineteens, it would probably be my 11th favorite shoegaze album. I'll add your other suggestions to my, "To Listen" list.
You should check out latin american shoegaze too, Dynamo by Soda Stereo is one of my favorite albums ever, Horrible by Suarez and Dormitorio by Giradioses are great 90's Argentinian albums too, also recently there is a lot of Mexican bands with shoegaze influences like margaritas podridas and los mundos
I personally find Slowdive's debut album just for a day to be much more ambient and atmospheric than Souvlaki songs like catch the breeze and primal and their cover of Syd Barrett's Golden Hair, brought such an honest , and yet saddening sound to the record that it just draws you in , like Neil and Rachel could be talking about eating breakfast and the album would still sound amazing
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Hi all, something I didn't mention in the video is that I only allowed one album per band. This is why albums like Isn't Anything or Just For a Day weren't featured. My reasoning for this was so I could highlight some groups that don't get discussed as often as MBV, Ride, and Slowdive. If I allowed multiple albums per band, I would have included all three MBV albums, two Ride albums, and two Slowdive albums!
No Jesu!?
For the next top, i dare you to find “top 5 shoegaze duos”
Here's a few more Irish Bands you may like to check out --
Rollerskate Skinny (the first couple E.P.'s & Debut Album had Jim Shields, Kevin Shields (MBV) brother, on Guitar. Check out "Cushy Daughter", "Violence To Violence", "Speed To My Side")
The Whipping Boy (they should've been bigger. Check out "Favourite Sister", "Buffalo", "When We Where Young", "Twinkle")
Into Paradise (check out "Burns My Skin" for starters.)
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I have to agree with that : )) So nice when someone agrees after thousands of hours of listening to show gaze. I personally love 60's psychedelic classical and Shoegaze ... I adore all 3 genres..and it is good when there is some general consensus about good taste and genius and brilliance that overlaps...... : )) Nice list by the way.. Very much enjoying the albums I did NOT know of......... also reason for tuning in! : )) Thank you.
@@trevordoolan5011 give Just Mustard's "Frank" a listen, if youre not familiar with them already
as a brazilian, seeing sonhos tomam conta growing in the underground shoegaze scene outside of brazil is pretty amazing as most local underrated artists usually have a hard time connecting their music to other countries in general (and sometimes even brazil itself lol)
Vdd cara da até um orgulho de ser brasileiro
I wonder why they didn‘t mention Lupe de Lupe, also a great brazilian shoegaze band.
@@Janik-pwoejrur well while they do have some songs that take influence from shoegaze and dream pop Lupe de Lupe never sticks to a genre as they've proven with their albums, that's the main reason i would assume
Ouvi dizer que tem uma banda chamada winter q os gringos gostam bastante tb
@@elzueiromemes tem link pra ouvir? Fiquei curioso agora
Thanks for recognizing the swirlies. They're so underrated and unknown, but a truly powerhouse of a band.
Facts. Another band that doesn't get much recognition is ar Kane.
good list! ofc Souvlaki and Loveless is number one and two! In their rightful places
Thank you Tonio! Couldn't have it any other way lol.
@@StainedGlassStories try reviewing ovlov?
It's so wonderful you included Xuvetyn by Lovesliescrushing. There was a period in my life (months/years) when I listened to this album every week!
I adore that album! There's truly nothing quite like it.
Everything Candy Claws does is so good!
Nice to see Sweet Trip on the list. Roberto from the band was my high school friend. He was so talented.
@kyokocoffee Yes, I was very disappointed to learn what happened.
i love sonhos tomam conta! i'm always fascinated with that drum and bass section in corpos gelados, that transition is pure gold
finally someone noticed lua's talent, all sonhos tomam conta projects since wierd are so incredible and complete
I've never heard anything like them! Lua has gone to be one of the most exciting faces of modern shoegaze!
Thanks to this video I listened to this band, it's amazing!
Kudos for including Sweet Trip, lovesliescrushing, and the Swirlies.
I miss an album by Ringo Deathstarr. They are so underrated.
Best band
Curve - Doppelgänger (1992) is great too!, Fuzzy guitar with electronic beats, one of my favorites
easily the most danceable shoegaze album
@@chrissvitreoushumour damn straight
Absolutely great.....and their singer is just smokin' hot....the clip for Horror head, oh man!!!
Ease by Whirr introduced me to the shoegaze genre. It's an underrated masterpiece!
Sweetness and Light by Lush and When You Sleep by MBV introduced me.
whirr best shoegaze
Whirr did nothing wrong 🗿🗿🗿
For me it was sweet trip dsco
@@tr4shst4r what a banger
Love the list. However, I'm disappointed not to see The Drop Nineteen's Delaware on that classic list. Not a band you hear much from but significant in the US Shoegaze scene in the 90s.
Love that album, literally the album that got me into shoegaze
Thank you armblessed. You make a valid point, they were probably the most significant US shoegaze group of the 90s. They would probably take my number 11 spot. However, they may go up in my ranking.
@@StainedGlassStories it’s all good, man. They’re so obscure these days, it induces confusion in hipsters. Hope you give the album a good listen. Slip in their cover of Manilow’s Mandy from their EP for a good laugh.
I came out of that album only enjoying kick the tragedy lol
@@zzz8630 Compared to what was out there at the time, Delaware was very different. However, I agree with you about Kick The Tragedy. 30 years later, it’s the most enduring track off that LP.
Perfect list. Thanks I’ve seen most of these groups live. Lush opening for Ride was incredible.
No one ever seems to consider the Verve a shoegazing band, but their debut, 'A Storm in Heaven', must surely rank among the best of that genre.
I'll check it out.
I’ll take Nowhere (and Going Blank Again, for that matter) over Loveless every day of the week and twice on Sunday. Also, Catherine Wheel’s Ferment needs to make the list. That’s just me. Great job.
All of them truly shoegaze classics!
I'll give you my favourite 10 (Shoegaze mixed with other genres):
1- Ride - Going Blank Again
2- MBV - Loveless
3- Slowdive - Souvlaki
4- Asobi Seksu - Citrus
5- Lush - Spooky
6- Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
7- DIIV - Is The Is Are?
8- Soda Stereo - Dynamo
9- Curve - Doppelganger
10- The Horrors - Primary Colors
Sweet. Some new albums to check out for me!
Soda Stereo 👍
100% curve. Hammerhead is one of my all time faves :)
Awesome list!
Quick Top 10 (also excluded duplicate albums and EP’s or compilations as that would definitely change the list) that if I spent more time researching would likely change but here we go as a start with an * to change later (favourite track):
1. RIDE - Nowhere (Vapour Trail)
2. SLOWDIVE - Just For A Day (Catch The Breeze)
3. CHAPTERHOUSE - Whirlpool (Pearl)
4. MBV - Loveless (I Only Said)
5. SWALLOW - Blow (Sugar Your Mind)
6. BLIND MR. JONES - Stereo Musicale (Small Caravan)
7. CURVE - Doppelgänger (Horror Head)
8. LUSH - Spooky (Nothing Natural)
9. BLEACH - Killing Time (Trip and Slide)
10. SIANSPHERIC - Somnium (I Like the Ride)
Love it! There are a few on that list I haven't heard, so I'll give them a listen.
Just listened to whirlpool for the first time cause of this comment, LOVE it ty
@@StainedGlassStories Other good records are Mahogany's "The Dream of a Modern Day", Malory's "Not Here Not Now", Guitaro's "Futura Black", Jessica Bailiff's "Hour of the Trace", Medicine's "Shot Forth Self Living", Microphones' "Don't Wake Me Up" and Skywave's "Echodrone".
I'm glad to see one of Scott Cortez's projects on this list.
Love him!
I’m really surprised that Swervedriver’s not gotten any love in these videos…i they are a lot more than just Shoegaze, but at the time Raise was almost as significant as Nowhere for what was happening.
Yep, Mezcal Head by Swervesriver is a must listen
I agree, 'Raise' is probably my favourite shoegaze album.
Huge fan of Starflyer 59. Gold, Silver, Leave Here a Stranger and Old all are quite solid, hazy and dreamy offerings. The first two are crunchier while the latter two are more atmospheric and easier on the ears.
HUM
Same! Big fan
Yes !
I was so lucky to see Ride live. Blew me away.
What an amazing show! I would love to see them if they come to the US.
@TRex262 they just announced a us tour with the chameleons in 2023
I loved those RIDE albums so much
Pinkshinyultrablast - 'Everything Else Matters' is probably my favorite shoegaze album of the last decade.
great editing and production value!! this channel is going places
Thanks diggy dog!
Souvlaki is definitely my #1, followed by Just For A Day & Nowhere.
One newer shoegaze album (with Black Metal vocals) I adore is Esse Est Percipi by Autumn Nostalgie from Slovakia. I have the 27th of 66 limited addition cassettes of this☺️. There are some beautiful songs on here, like Fallen Leaves, and some intense parts as well. They released a second album this year (or maybe it was 2021) called Ataraxia that is also very good. I have a limited cd copy of this.
I love your top 10! Tokyo Shoegazer - Crystallize is a cool listen as well.
Thank you Billy! I will give it a listen!
Pale Saints' debut album was easily their best. 'Still love that album 30+ years later. 👌
I'd personally go with V:D:C in number 1, when I heard the glitchy Tekka for the first time followed by the beautiful DSCO, I knew it was going to be something special.
Great list and vid!
Thank you Praemisit! You make a great point, I think V:D:C is such an achievement for shoegaze and electronic music. It took the rest of the world nearly 20 years to catch up!
I really like My Bloody Valentine's "MBV" (2013) album, and Slowdive's "Slowdive" (2017) album as well.
m b v > loveless all day babyyyyy
@@xbenci You are wrong
@@thadon9148 I mean I don't know why you say that considering that I am always 100% right, never ever make a mistake
@@xbenci your historical accuracy cannot be leveraged to convince me that you are right, you see, you are wrong
That 2017 Slowdive… 🔥🔥🔥
You should listen to Unexpectedly by Megumi Acorda if you haven't already. I recently found this record and it has absolutely captivated me. It also makes me appreciate it more knowing the artist is Filipino, speaking from someone who is a Filipino himself.
I read that split is not usually viewed very highly by critics but so far it’s probably my favorite album by lush. I agree it’s lyrically very deep and teeters on having a more dreamy sound like HOLV by CT or Blind by Sundays.
I was shocked to see the view count lol, kinda expected it to have a whole lot more views. keep up this quality and you're set! love this style of video, keep it up!
Thank you, Broken tv 2! It's comments like yours that keep me motivated! The way I see it, if it's not a video I would watch, then it's not a video I would upload.
Def check out Lilys "In The Presence of Nothing", Starflyer 59 "Silver", and The Veldt "Afrodisiac" if you haven't yet. Prob my favorite of the 90s American shoegaze albums
Chapterhouse, Kitchens of Distinction and Secret Shine should be in this top ten list.
Superb choices!
Kitchens of Distinction are more straight indie, but Chapterhouse 👍
@@matthewlewis2072 Chapterhouse, man. Super underrated band. Pearl and Breather just snag me every time.
As long as Nowhere, Loveless and Souvlaki appears in one of these-here-type lists it's legit in my book! Nice video man.
Great list and I love that you picked velocity design comfort as #3.
Thanks for the new recommendations. I haven’t really listened to any of those 2nd wave bands.
I can’t argue with the classic picks.
A few I would have in my top 10 or 20:
Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
Swervedriver - Mazcal Head
Darling Buds - Erotica
Autumns - the Angel Pool
Loop - The World In Your Eyes
Spacemen 3 - Recurring
Southpacific - Constance
Engineers - Engineers
Lush was my favorite band of the early 90s.
Great list!
Seefeel Quique, and Boo Radleys Everything’s Alright Forever are probably the most overlooked shoegaze albums that are actually top 10. Blonde Redhead 23 honorable mention. Swirlies They Spent Their Youthful Days is their Loveless imo
Hey man - thoughtful, relevant and well spoken. Nice job. 50s guy who's not into dad rock and always looking for something new - there's bands there I hadn't heard of. Thank you.
I've been able to add so much to my Shoegaze listening thanks to you!
The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads by Lift to Experience is an amazingly underrated shoegaze album, Robin Guthrie the guitarist for the Cocteau Twins did the mixing on the album, super unique mix of shoegaze, post-rock and country influences, I consider it one of the shoegaze greats
The song "House Full of Time" by Guitar doesn't fit with the rest of that album (Sunkissed), as I remember, but is one of the shoegaziest tracks ever, and is worth checking out.
Great list, I'm also quite happy with the inclusion of Lovesliescrushing. Some of my other favorite albums include Flying Saucer Attack's self-titled album, Love Songs For the Chemical Generation by Daniel Land & the Modern Painters, Ferment by Catherine Wheel, Taste by The Telescopes, and Sea When Absent by A Sunny Day in Glasgow.
I really like Lush's Split, but I would have chosen "Spooky". And I think I know why Chapterhouse is not on this list: because it's not essentially a Shoegaze album, but a heavily influenced by Shoegaze album, such as Blur's Leisure and Verve's A Storm in Heaven.
Swervedriver record was an important record from a layered guitar rhythmic standpoint. Should be in here somewhere
Swervedriver was (is?) more like workbootgazing, maybe?
My top 5 not mentioned in this video by bands not mentioned in this video:
1. Skywave - Synthstatic
2. Diiv - Oshin
3. The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa -- Suserrate
4. Alcest - Shelter
5. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us (I consider it shoegaze)
Of the five you mentioned, I've heard Oshin by Diiv. Great record!
Oshin is awesome, but it feels more of a dream pop album than shoegaze to me. I feel like they didn't really go full shoegaze until Deceiver, though a lot of tracks before that (Bent, Wait) def have heavy shoegaze influence
First I want to thank you for your intense and profound work. 😊I wouldn't leave a comment regarding the content or decisions in a list, which are always highly individual. But the layout and compilation regarding the criteria of this list is from a methodical point of view nearly flawless. Nice work.👍
A list like that *ISN'T ANYTHING* without a certain mbv album...
My apologies, I should have mentioned I only allowed one album per band. Otherwise Isn't Anything would have easily been top 5.
Back in college in the 90s, I was really into The Cranes and Catherine Wheel, as well as Slowdive, Lush, and many other bands of this genre. Strangely enough, I don't think I ever even heard the term shoegaze until the 2000s.
I just discovered your channel like yesterday and I have to say your videos are amazing. You have that quality of 1 milion subs channels.
Thank you so much Klaus ☺ this really means a lot to read. I hope my future videos won't dissappoint!
I was going to leave a comment saying my favourite Shoegaze album is True Color, True Lie by this Japanese band called Hartfield, when I realised YOU were the one that showed me them in your Japanese Shoegaze video... was a very trippy moment haha, but just wanted to say thank you so much for introducing them, I think I saw your video back in December but I'm still listening to them all the time! I'm Japanese but had never heard of them, such a shame they disbanded after the one album.
My Bloody Valentine aren't a "shoegaze" band.
The term was used to describe the bands that spawned in the wake of "You Made Me Realise" and "Isn't Anything". So it's not really fair to compare shoegaze bands to the Valentines, I think these bands would be the first to admit their records are just not on a par, MBV remain peerless.
As a teenager in the UK in those days, these are the ones that hit hardest:
1. Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
2. Swervedriver - Raise
3. Pale Saints - Comforts of Madness
4. Ride - Nowhere
5. The Telescopes - Splashdown (compilation)
6. Lush - Scar
7. Slowdive - Blue Day (compilation)
8. Seefeel - Polyfusia (compilation)
9. The Boo Radleys - Learning to Walk (compilation)
10. Drop Nineteens - Delaware
Lots of bands released their best material on e.p.'s, so it makes sense to list some compilations, as you'll find a lot of gems collected on them.
Interesting selections and I do generally agree.
Here's my list, partially complete. Ratings are weighted towards the album's best tracks (because you would skip tracks you didn't love more often)
1. Loveless (My Bloody Valentine, 1991) - 4.93/5.00 (#1/70)
2. Bowery Electric (Bowery Electric, 1995) - 4.89/5.00 (#3/70)
[Tremolo EP (My Bloody Valentine, 1990) - 4.82/5.00 (#5/70)]
[You Made Me Realise (My Bloody Valentine, 1988) - 4.70/5.00 (#7/70)]
3. Beat (Bowery Electric, 1996) - 4.54/5.00 (#12/70)
4. In the Presence of Nothing (Lilys, 1992) - 4.43/5.00 (#18/70)
5. Nowhere (Ride, 1990) - 4.41/5.00 (#19/70)
6. Suave pendiente (Ninos del Cerro, 2022) - 4.35/5.00 (#21/70)
[Breathe (Eternal, 1990) - 4.33/5.00 (#23/70)]
7. Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time - 4.31/5.00 (#24/70)
[Moodswinger [DRMS version] (Stopping Clocks, 2022) - 4.31/5.00 (#24/70)]
8. m b v (My Bloody Valentine, 2013) - 4.28/5.00 (#28/70)
I expect Slowdive's Souvlaki to end up top 5, Ride's Going Blank Again in the top 10, and Drop Nineteens's Mayfield to possibly be on here, too.
Isn't Anything isn't on this list due to me disliking the sound of it - 3.46/5.00 (This is Your Bloody Valentine got a 3.61 from me. Yeah, their maddeningly inconsistent gothic rock LP.)
Chrome by Catherine Wheel is a great shoegaze record as well
CW is always on my list. Don't understand why they weren't bigger.
Gracias por Sweet Trip. me encanta su musica y la conocí gracias a este video.
Sweet Trip's album is positively brilliant, and he literally chose 2 of the album's weakest tracks for this video. It's basically if Kev quit MBV to join Cex. It'll make you think that Roberto Burgos recorded the base tracks, then sat in front of a computer running Steinberg Wavelab for 5 years cutting and pasting and cutting and pasting til his body was found melted into his chair covered in spiderwebs.
@@Hastur876Your comment is most absolutely positively brilliant!!!!!!!
Great video! I was about your age when shoegaze was blowing up 1989-1992. I'd have to slot The Boo Radleys' "Everything's Alright Forever" in my top ten. They kinda turned into an embarrassing Britpop act later on, but that album as well as the Creation and Rough Trade EPs leading up to it are sublime.
I have been listening to a lot of Syd Barrett recently. He helped create this beautiful music!
dammmmn you know sonhos tomam conta!! it's nice to see a compatriot being recognized in other countries
(great vid by the way 👍🏽)
I am so glad to find two of my favourite albums, Split and Souvlaki, in your shortlist. I am a fan of musicians who try to reinvent themselves and their music, those who experiment and embrace different styles. I still listen to a few other albums from the early 1990s, for example "Cuckoo" by Curve.
good to see that sonhos tomam conta, a brazillian shoegaze (my country) artist is being well recognized in other countries
The collab album Downfall of the Neon Youth by Parannoul, Asian Glow, and Sonhos Tonham Conta is one of my favorite Shoegaze albums of all time, as well as the one that got me into the genre.
Great ranking. Hard to argue with: Lush, Slowdive, or MBV. You can’t miss Curve (Doppelgänger). You would have a nice surprise with Charlie Alberti/Deborah del Corral (Plum) from Argentina. Finally, I would add one of my favs Jesus & Mary Chain (Honey’s Dead).
Lush album Gala was my only shoegazing obsession. Listened over and over again. Besides the song ‘Hey Helen’ I never understood another lyric from them, which is totally fine with me. I would call the music beautiful noise where the vocals were just an instrument layered with the melody on top. Also, the energy was fairly even across the song allowing for a meditative state. I pivoted from this to groups like Throwing Muses, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Live, Janes Addiction which expressed more range of expression and emotions.
I adore gala. My favorite material from Lush are the first 3 Sweetness and Light EP tracks.
Great list! I personally would have included Rumskib (self-titled) in the list cos i think its a very interesting piece of electronic-orientated shoegaze (if you haven't heard it, give is a listen).
Great list and video. You may have become my favourite non-review focused music channel.
I would love a video about your top ambient and alt-rock albums.
Thank you so much Llibran! I'm glad that you said my channel is, "non-review focused." I've tried to avoid making this a review channel, as my goal is to highlight bands rather than score them. I would be happy to make both of those videos at some point!
Lilys - In the Presence of Nothing. - an homage to Loveless. It’s so good.
im so glad you put lovesliescrushing on here
I used to listen to a lot of Rose Chronicles, back in the day. These days I tend to listen to atmospheric black metal. I appreciate this list, as it's getting me reacquainted with bands I might not have heard about!
I love the Rose Chronicles!!!!! Good mention!!!! If you haven't already you should check out the band:
An April March, also from Canada, and existed in the 90's, especially their album "Impatiens", very similar sound to The Rose Chronicles, and definitely inspired by Cocteau Twins!!!! Cheers!!!! Enjoy!!!!!
This is quite the interesting list. There are some selections I expected and some that I did not. As you know everyone's list would be different. So I'm going to delve into the music you suggested via your top 10 that I have never experienced. I do want to give you a big ups for putting Loveliescrushing on your list. I didn't think anybody in the world listened to them besides myself.
Dynamo, from an argentinan band called 'soda stereo', I'm sure you will like it even if you don't understand spanish language
This is awesome !! Great video !!
Thank you Ramiro! So glad you enjoyed 😁
I don’t really have any opinions on this list as I’ve only just started to get into Shoegaze. Only commenting to thank you for uploading this, now I know a good place to start. (I hope that Loveless lives up to all the praise I’ve seen it get)
You're very welcome, Sidney! I'm glad I was able to provide a starting spot for your shoegaze journey. Hope you enjoy some of the music on the list!
Once listened to Only Shallow when it came out on MTV whilst I was studying for nursing boards.No local Pgh radio stations played any of this shoegaze music even on our "alternative " channel. A few months ago I heard Only Shallow after 32 yrs on Sirius XM
Lol 😆 🤣 😂 Totally blew me outta the water and I am rediscovering it happily again!!! This music is a time travel into future and will never grow old with it's fresh and out of the box sound tapestries.
Beware, loveless hit me after dozens of listens, but when it did, it was 10/10, perfect dreamy noisy beautiful music
If you don't like "Loveless", you don't deserve ears
Great list. Only Loveless or Souvlaki could reasonably be at #1. Have you ever listened to Tired of Tomorrow by the band Nothing? That's one of my newer favorites
Great video! I've found some new stuff as well :) keep it going!
ps1: mbv by my bloody valentine should have been in the list!! but since only 1 album per band is permitted, I can take that loveless took its spot
ps2: there's a great argentinian band called Plenamente, I recommend their songs "Consuelo" from their album "Elemental", as well as "Rosario" and "Felicia" from their album "Plenamente"
Thank you very much s a v a g e :)! I agree with you that MBV is an excellent album. I would have to think about it more, but the song, "Only Tomorrow," may just be my favorite shoegaze song of all time. It was so difficult to pick only one My Bloody Valentine record! I will give Plenamente a listen! Thanks for the suggestion!
As much as I love blonder tongue audio baton I believe swirlies second effort is the superior of the two, they definitely went their own way on that album, so original which is a bit of a rare thing in this genre, at least these days. Nonetheless pleased to see swirlies get the recognition they deserve.
Both were remarkable.
Really interesting list -- not just the usual consensus picks, and the ones you picked that I wasn't familiar with sound awesome. Congrats on having good taste and thinking for yourself. I feel like that's increasingly rare
i love your choices. for me personally, even though its considered a single on spotify, I love ixtab by my dead girlfriend.
Belong - Common Era and South Pacific - Constance worth a listen. Thanks for the video.
Lovely list!
There is a Dutch band called HABITANTS, whose founder was greatly influenced by Slowdive. Their only album to date, "One Self", has one of the most polished and sophisticated takes on shoegaze I've ever heard. It's a no skip record, worth checking out.
Love it! These are all wonderful picks. What are your thoughts on M83’s Dead Cities, Red Seas, & Lost Ghosts?
Thank you Josh! I like M83 from what I've heard. I still have yet to listen to their full albums but they are on my list of groups to listen to.
@@StainedGlassStories I'd highly recommend! I'm a big fan of all of their stuff, but definitely their earlier work is much more shoegaze influenced. Dead Cities probably adopts those qualities the most, while adding very intriguing electronic elements as well. Give it a listen!
@@joshuabarlow167 I'm looking forward to hearing them! I'll listen to Dead Cities first since it sounds most intreguing. Who knows, maybe they'll become one of my favorite groups!
Delaware by Drop Nineteens is under-rated and my number 1 shoegaze album.
Just discovered this album
YES !!
I've been following 'shoegaze' and variants since I first saw Ride on "120 Minutes" over 30 years ago (I had liked bands with a big guitar sound since the 70's). There are lots of bands currently doing versions of it, some of them very good, others not so much. Fwiw, my current personal favorite is Blankenberge, who are from St. Petersburg, Russia. Their 2019 album "More" and the recently released "Everything" are both outstanding.
For my money, melodic sense and/or attractive chord progressions are what make the style. There are loads of bands that manage to get the "soundworld" right, but have little or nothing to offer in terms of attractive songwriting/song-construction. I recently listened to a band that a record store guy recommended, for instance, and afterwards I immediately thought, "This is basically Slowdive, but without the melodies." Nice mood, but nothing that really grabbed me and made me want to listen again.
V.D.C. is one of my favorite albums. I discovered a lot of new great music from this video that I'm interested in listening to (specifically Lush - Split, Lovesliescrushing - Xuvetyn, My Bloody Valentine - Loveless)
So glad you enjoy V.D.C. too!! It makes me happy to read that some of the albums I talked about interested you. That's my number one goal as a youtuber !
thank you for the loveliescrushing recommendation i love the sound
I'm so glad, I was hoping I'd turn some more viewers onto their music. You're very welcome!
Souvlaki is the best album of all time. Been listening to it for about 10 years and it still touches me.
Thanks for sharing loveliescrushing - never heard of them. I wonder if you've spent time with "everything's alright forever" by boo radleys. Their first and best (i couldn't get into later releases). The textures on that album are top ten - and i've never heard any band with this tone
Loveless's only shallow track is almost perfect as an opening song for an album.
where are Catherine wheel and Chapterhouse ? coquinou ! ;)
Truly a great top 10. I love you
Split and Just for a Day are two albums of the original era that don’t get the recognition they deserve (I’ll also throw in Going Blank Again for good measure).
Someone previously mentioned Starflyer 59, which is a criminally underrated band. It was Silver and the She’s the Queen EP that got me into Shoegaze in the first place, and you can hear Jason Martin’s influence all over the genre. He still releases new albums under the SF59 moniker, collab’s with other artists (Lo Tom, The New Division), and does production work for others (The Drums, Cigarettes after Sex).
If I could be indulged one more interjection, my favorite of the second wave (late 90’s/early 00’s) is Bethany Curve. The opening track of You Brought Us Here is equal to MBV Loveless’s opener for setting the tone of the album and who they are as a band.
I very much prefer the denser sound in Going Blank Again than Nowhere.
I'm glad you put some "lesser" known bands relative to the shoegaze scene, will absolutely be checking out swirlies and pale saints
Recently I found a very very very small Japanese shoegaze band by the name "Hartfield", around ~1,300 monthly listeners on spotify. Their debut and only published album "True Color, True Lie" is a really incredible landmark of second wave japanese shoegaze and I really love it and hope more people check it out.
Thanks Link! Love your pfp btw. Hope you enjoy Swirlies and Pale Saints! I'm going to give Hartfield a listen. I've been diving deeper into the Japanese shoegaze scene and I'm hoping to eventually make a video about the topic! Looking forward to listening to them.
@@StainedGlassStories i mixed that Hartfield album
@@scottcortez1313 Well that makes me what to listen to it even more then. What projects have you been working on lately?
@@StainedGlassStories new astrobrite, new lovesliescrushing, facilitation of orchestral versions of lovesliescrushing songs with a composer, and other stuff
@@scottcortez1313 I'm looking forward to hearing the new Astrobrite and lovesliescrushing material. It's exciting to read that some lovesliescrushing songs will be explored orchestrally. I would love to get the sheet music copies of your songs for the alto saxophone.
Whirlpool by Chapterhouse, Everythings Alright Forever by Boo Radleys, Delaware by Drop Nineteens, Cuckoo by Curve and Shot Forth Self Living by Medicine should be on this list. You know, actual shoegaze.
Great list but was kinda surprised to see Ride all the way on 6 rather than 3 or 4 because they're considered to be up there in the shoegaze holy trinity along with MBV and Slowdive. But awesome picks anyways! I would love to also add Against Perfection by Adorable, Raise by Swervedriver, In The Presence of Nothing by Lilys, Delaware by Drop Ninteens and an earlier version of Shoegaze, Just Like Honey by TJAMC. There are loads more I can honestly mention!
Thank you so much Drae! I think if I were to rank the albums by their influence, Nowhere would definitely be within the top 3. Deathconciousness and V:D:C may not be as influential as Nowhere, but I enjoyed the records more for the unique places they take the shoegaze genre. It was a hard decision, though! I love Delaware by Drop Nineteens, it would probably be my 11th favorite shoegaze album. I'll add your other suggestions to my, "To Listen" list.
Thank you for making me discover some more dope shoegaze, beautiful video and recommendations.
You should check out latin american shoegaze too, Dynamo by Soda Stereo is one of my favorite albums ever, Horrible by Suarez and Dormitorio by Giradioses are great 90's Argentinian albums too, also recently there is a lot of Mexican bands with shoegaze influences like margaritas podridas and los mundos
The Swirlies, one of my fav indie rock/shoegaze group
I personally find Slowdive's debut album just for a day to be much more ambient and atmospheric than Souvlaki songs like catch the breeze and primal and their cover of Syd Barrett's Golden Hair, brought such an honest , and yet saddening sound to the record that it just draws you in , like Neil and Rachel could be talking about eating breakfast and the album would still sound amazing
Just For A Day is far and away a better album than Souvlaki.
I highly recommend Sway - the millia pink and green ep. The first track is incredible.